Previewing NBA Teams As Presidential Candidates

Tweet The NBA is barely a week into its regular season. Draymond Green hasn’t even stretched for his first Rockette kick. Alternatively, the general election cycle is also closing in on two years of campaigning and punditry analysis. Thankfully, the end is near. The intersection of these two events inspired a novel idea. Recently, Pat Buchanan used the term, “political athlete” [&hellip

Marvel at Golden State’s NBA Avengers

Tweet If you could use an analogy to describe the superficial analog between the Warriors signing of Kevin Durant and the Miami Heat acquiring the services of LeBron James six years ago, it would be the film strategy for rolling out DC’s Justice League vs. Marvel’s Avengers. Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and James were crammed together almost all at once. [&hellip

VICE Sports: LeBron James Is The NBA’s Anachronistic Superstar

Tweet I wrote about this young actor for VICE Sports. He is also an old NBA player from Ohio. Did you know that according to the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, Michael Jordan was the only player to score a non-dunk field goal in the original Space Jam? That Space Jam 2 role is perfect, because LeBron has forgotten how to [&hellip

Feeding the Troll: Laremy Tunsil Edition

Tweet The following is the transcript of a conversation I recently had with a Facebook troll, who sought to remain anonymous. Anonymous Troll: Remember when social media was just a place to post photos of your lunch spread and complain about celebrity rumors? Now it’s an unsavory destination where idiots go to record their delinquent behavior. It’s like everyone wants [&hellip

After Feasting On Philly’s Famine, Sam Hinkie Finally Surrendered To His Sixerphean Fate

Tweet In the quarter-century since it’s inception, Apollo Global Management, LLC has feasted on famines to become a multi-billion dollar entity. Their investment in LyondellBasell Chemical seven years ago was arguably their most successful. At that point in 2009, LyondellBasell was inhaling monumental financial losses. It was the corporate equivalent to asbestos filling the lungs. In January 2009, they [&hellip

Tweet The NBA is barely a week into its regular season. Draymond Green hasn’t even stretched for his first Rockette kick. Alternatively, the general election cycle is also closing in on two years of campaigning and punditry analysis. Thankfully, the end is near. The intersection of these two events inspired a novel idea. Recently, Pat Buchanan used the term, “political athlete” [&hellip

Tweet If you could use an analogy to describe the superficial analog between the Warriors signing of Kevin Durant and the Miami Heat acquiring the services of LeBron James six years ago, it would be the film strategy for rolling out DC’s Justice League vs. Marvel’s Avengers. Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and James were crammed together almost all at once. [&hellip

Tweet Matt Harvey’s New York Mets were already staring up at Stephen Strasburg’s Washington Nationals in the NL East Standings before an update on the health of their injury-prone ace dropped. The uphill climb got steeper Friday when the Mets announced that Harvey’s trip to the DL would be a permanent one and that the Mets ace would undergo season-ending [&hellip

Tweet The Philadelphia 76ers expect to be embarking on their post-Trust the Process epilogue this upcoming season. They’ll be doing so with the No. 1 overall pick, 2014 lottery investment Joel Embiid expected to make his belated debut, French rookie Timothe Luwawe, along with Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel filling out the rest of the frontcourt. 2014 first rounder Dario [&hellip

Tweet Larry Brown’s legacy is a difficult one to pin down. On one hand, he’s a brilliant basketball professor. On another hand, his perpetual wanderlust has made him unreliable to count on long-term. During a nearly half-century of coaching, Brown has accumulated more Air Miles than a Secretary of State taking 13 different jobs, with only one stint lasting longer [&hellip